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  • AxtremusA Away
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    Axtremus
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    #708

    Musk recently sold $3.6 Billion of Tesla shares:

    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1318605/000089924322038522/xslF345X03/doc4.xml

    Note the transaction dates, all in Dec. 12-14.

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    • AxtremusA Axtremus

      Musk recently sold $3.6 Billion of Tesla shares:

      https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1318605/000089924322038522/xslF345X03/doc4.xml

      Note the transaction dates, all in Dec. 12-14.

      HoraceH Online
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      Horace
      wrote on last edited by
      #709

      @Axtremus said in Elon Musk buys a big chunk of Twitter:

      Musk recently sold $3.6 Billion of Tesla shares:

      https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1318605/000089924322038522/xslF345X03/doc4.xml

      Note the transaction dates, all in Dec. 12-14.

      Tesla stock is down 70% from its all time high a year ago.

      Education is extremely important.

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      • George KG Offline
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        George K
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        #710

        "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

        The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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        • George KG George K

          89th8 Online
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          89th
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          #711

          @George-K That is weird. I've personally worked on a few projects that leverage ADS-B open flight tracking data. It's still open, and available on the internet, but I guess a user would just have to click a few more times to track a specific flight, including Elon's or Bezos'. It's all publicly available.

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          • 89th8 89th

            @George-K That is weird. I've personally worked on a few projects that leverage ADS-B open flight tracking data. It's still open, and available on the internet, but I guess a user would just have to click a few more times to track a specific flight, including Elon's or Bezos'. It's all publicly available.

            George KG Offline
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            George K
            wrote on last edited by
            #712

            @89th said in Elon Musk buys a big chunk of Twitter:

            It's all publicly available.

            Indeed. I would guess that using bots to aggregate the info and make it easy to find on Twitter is the issue. Similar to a (remember those?) phone book. Yeah, the person's address is publicly available, but...

            "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

            The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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            • Doctor PhibesD Offline
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              Doctor Phibes
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              #713

              Apparently Elon isn't as keen on those funny little practical jokes where he's the punchline.

              I was only joking

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              • George KG Offline
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                #714

                Anyone notice that Musk has been really, uncharacteristically, quiet for 24 hours?

                "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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                • George KG George K

                  Anyone notice that Musk has been really, uncharacteristically, quiet for 24 hours?

                  AxtremusA Away
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                  Axtremus
                  wrote on last edited by Axtremus
                  #715

                  @George-K said in Elon Musk buys a big chunk of Twitter:

                  Anyone notice that Musk has been really, uncharacteristically, quiet for 24 hours?

                  Busy cutting deals palling around with Jared and the Arabs while watching the World Cup final? There is a thread on that, right?

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                  • jon-nycJ Online
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                    jon-nyc
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                    #716

                    Only non-witches get due process.

                    • Cotton Mather, Salem Massachusetts, 1692
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                    • AxtremusA Away
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                      Axtremus
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                      #717

                      https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/20/twitter-is-down-to-fewer-than-550-full-time-engineers.html

                      Twitter employee head count down by 80% since Elon Musk took over. Has 1300 employees now with 550 "engineers" (by title) among them.

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                      • George KG Offline
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                        George K
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                        #718

                        Interesting.

                        I won't even try to pretend the implications of this. However, the platform is up and appears to be functioning pretty much as always.

                        Yeah, there's bugs, and changes to under-the-hood stuff, but it appears that, unlike predictions, it has survived.

                        At least for now.

                        Related, how are Truth Social, Mastodon, WeMe, and Parler doing?

                        "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                        The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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                        • George KG George K

                          Interesting.

                          I won't even try to pretend the implications of this. However, the platform is up and appears to be functioning pretty much as always.

                          Yeah, there's bugs, and changes to under-the-hood stuff, but it appears that, unlike predictions, it has survived.

                          At least for now.

                          Related, how are Truth Social, Mastodon, WeMe, and Parler doing?

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                          Doctor Phibes
                          wrote on last edited by
                          #719

                          @George-K said in Elon Musk buys a big chunk of Twitter:

                          Related, how are Truth Social, Mastodon, WeMe, and Parler doing?

                          Truth social is amazing. Just so amazing. Truly. It's been really, really great, and it has all the best people. Just the best. I could give you the numbers, but you wouldn't believe me because they're so amazing.

                          I was only joking

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                            Some wicked witch turned Phibes into a Trump like troll! ๐Ÿ˜ž

                            Elbows up!

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                            • RenaudaR Renauda

                              Some wicked witch turned Phibes into a Trump like troll! ๐Ÿ˜ž

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                              George K
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                              @Renauda said in Elon Musk buys a big chunk of Twitter:

                              Some wicked witch turned Phibes into a Trump like troll! ๐Ÿ˜ž

                              No shit! Look at his avatar!

                              "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                              The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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                              • HoraceH Online
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                                Horace
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                                #722

                                Really sad to see how tribal heโ€™s become. Fox News captures another ideological prisoner.

                                Education is extremely important.

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                                • HoraceH Horace

                                  Really sad to see how tribal heโ€™s become. Fox News captures another ideological prisoner.

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                                  Aqua Letifer
                                  wrote on last edited by
                                  #723

                                  @Horace said in Elon Musk buys a big chunk of Twitter:

                                  Really sad to see how tribal heโ€™s become. Fox News captures another ideological prisoner.

                                  Yeah, but Carlson was never that great to begin with.

                                  Please love yourself.

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                                  • George KG George K

                                    @Renauda said in Elon Musk buys a big chunk of Twitter:

                                    Some wicked witch turned Phibes into a Trump like troll! ๐Ÿ˜ž

                                    No shit! Look at his avatar!

                                    Doctor PhibesD Offline
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                                    Doctor Phibes
                                    wrote on last edited by Doctor Phibes
                                    #724

                                    @George-K said in Elon Musk buys a big chunk of Twitter:

                                    @Renauda said in Elon Musk buys a big chunk of Twitter:

                                    Some wicked witch turned Phibes into a Trump like troll! ๐Ÿ˜ž

                                    No shit! Look at his avatar!

                                    That's not Tucker, it's his twin brother, Magnus. He's so amazing. And really, really smart. Like a stable genius. He cleans out the horses so well, like really really well.

                                    I was only joking

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                                    • AxtremusA Away
                                      AxtremusA Away
                                      Axtremus
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                                      #725

                                      What else is broken at Twitter?

                                      https://www.propublica.org/article/politwoops-deleted-tweets-twitter-politicians-musk

                                      Politicians havenโ€™t stopped deleting some of their most cringeworthy tweets, but Politwoops, our project that has tracked and archived more than half a million deleted tweets from candidates and elected officials since 2012, is no longer able to track them.

                                      Since Elon Musk took over Twitter, the platform has disabled the function we used to track deletions โ€” and the new method that Twitter says should identify them appears to be broken. We have been unable to find anyone who can help us, and with Twitter surprising developers by announcing a move to a paid model for gathering tweet data, itโ€™s no longer clear that Twitter is a stable platform on which to maintain this work. ...

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                                      • AxtremusA Away
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                                        Axtremus
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                                        #726

                                        Another round of job cuts at Twitter:

                                        https://www.reuters.com/technology/twitter-lays-off-least-50-relentless-cost-cuts-information-2023-02-26/

                                        "At least 50" people were let go this time.

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                                        • AxtremusA Away
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                                          Axtremus
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                                          #727

                                          Yet another Twitter outage:

                                          https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/03/after-musks-mass-layoffs-one-engineers-mistake-broke-the-twitter-api/

                                          "... the sixth major outage since January 23." ...

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